Jeff Benjamin

Jeff Benjamin is a senior columnist who primarily writes about investments and practice management as they relate to the wealth management industry. In addition to news and opinion writing, Jeff also does regular video interviews and is the co-host of The InvestmentNews Podcast, a weekly show that takes listeners behind the scenes of our coverage. He joined InvestmentNews in 2000. Prior to InvestmentNews, Jeff’s career included working as an analyst at Cerulli Associates, and as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires. Jeff is based in North Carolina and when he isn’t working, he can usually be found playing golf or fishing. Jeff is a former Marine and has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Central Michigan University.

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RIA NEWS MAY 11, 2010
Advisers scramble to calm clients after market suffers big drop

Thursday's stock market whipsaw sent many financial advisers into client management mode — fielding calls and sending out soothing e-mails as the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly tested a record 1,000-point drop.

RIA NEWS MAY 05, 2010
Volatility expert wins NAAIM research award

Research paper details several methods for predicting volatility to specify levels of leverage that can increase performance with less risk

MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 03, 2010
ICI extends reach with global launch

London calling: Fund advocacy group sets up international body in the U.K.

MUTUAL FUNDS APR 29, 2010
Amid bank carnage, vultures are a good bet, says Burnham's Schutz

Banks with strong balance sheets are flying lazy circles over weaker rivals. And with 700 banks on the FDIC's worry list, there's plenty of stragglers to go after

S&P: Two sectors (and three fund picks) for a rising-interest-rate environment
EQUITIES APR 26, 2010
S&P: Two sectors (and three fund picks) for a rising-interest-rate environment

Whenever the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System decides to start raising interest rates, investors should look to the technology and health care sectors as the biggest likely beneficiaries, according to new research from Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC.

ALTERNATIVES APR 25, 2010
ING portfolio manager moves to hedge fund

Uri Landesman, head of global growth at ING Investment Management Americas, has moved over to the hedge fund arena as president of Platinum Partners LP, a $500 million hedge fund boutique.

RIA NEWS APR 18, 2010
Go for the gold, cautiously

If you can stomach a bit of initial volatility, now is a good time to start building a long-term allocation to gold.

REITs are still a good value, says ING Global's Ferguson
ALTERNATIVES APR 06, 2010
REITs are still a good value, says ING Global's Ferguson

An upturn is coming in the publicly traded real estate space, and investors need to be nimble to take advantage, says Ritson Ferguson, manager of the $1.9 billion ING Global Real Estate Fund

RIA NEWS APR 02, 2010
IPO market on pace for best two weeks since '07

With five companies slated to go public next week, the initial-public-offering market is on track for its best two-week period since December 2007 — when there were 13 IPOs spread over two weeks.

EQUITIES APR 02, 2010
Consider a new approach to emerging-markets investing

To tap into the potential of some of the world's fastest-growing economies, investors need to look beyond the broad emerging-markets categories and start paying attention to the specific sectors and industries that actually drive performance.